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An author who has written four books about President Donald Trump warned that he is about to make the situation with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth worse because he is "fundamentally bored" with complicated situation.

Hegseth has been facing mounting criticism from both parties over the Defense Departments strikes against alleged drug boats in international waters. He has offered a shifting account of one strike from September 2, known as the "double tap strike" where survivors of a strike were killed. Trump has tried to distance himself from the situation by saying he "wouldn't have ordered the second strike."

President Donald Trump has been flouting his pardon power during his second term, and a legal expert on Thursday revealed how the Supreme Court helped pave the way for Trump's actions.

Investigative researcher Lisa Graves, author of a book on the Supreme Court called "Without Precedent," wrote in a new essay for Substack that Chief Justice John Roberts seemingly gave Trump permission to use the pardon power as he pleased. The essay was published at a time when Trump is facing growing scrutiny for the pardons and commutations he's issued during his second term.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is facing a growing mutiny from his Republican colleagues as the looming 2026 midterm causes "fear and anxiety" in the caucus, according to a new report.

Johnson has faced significant criticism from Republicans in recent weeks over his leadership. Republican women like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) have publicly called men in the caucus "weak" over their handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files saga. After Democrats overperformed in the Tennessee special election this week, several GOP lawmakers are starting to feel the heat, NBC News reported on Thursday.

U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer makes wildly inaccurate claim about Somali crime on national TV

by Madison McVan, Minnesota Reformer
December 4, 2025

A scandal-plagued Republican congressman was illegally running an arms-export business to foreign countries while serving in the House of Representatives, reporter Roger Sollenberger revealed in an investigative Substack post — and his company to do so was run into the ground and is now in foreclosure.

Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) has faced a series of other allegations and controversies this year, including a physical abuse claim from a woman he was involved with; an eviction from his Washington, D.C. penthouse after defaulting on $85,000 in rent; an ongoing Congressional ethics investigation into unprofessional conduct, stolen valor, and failure to disclose gifts; and accusations he hired sex workers during a 2021 trip to Afghanistan.

A top military official undercut a key claim made by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth about the now infamous "double tap" bombing operation on an alleged drug boat in September, according to a new report.

During a briefing with lawmakers, Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley said that the survivors of the Sept. 2 bombing were "in no position to make a distress call," according to a report by CNN, citing three sources familiar with the situation. The survivors' boat had capsized, and other reporting indicates they were working to turn it back over when the U.S. military struck them a second time.

CNN's chief data analyst, Harry Enten, borrowed one of President Donald Trump's favorite phrases on Thursday night to describe the president's precipitous fall in support from a key part of his coalition.

Over the last couple of months, Trump's approval rating among young men aged 30 years and under has dropped by more than 56 points, Enten said during CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront." Enten called the plummeting support "stunning."

President Donald Trump's administration announced on Thursday night that it had carried out another strike against an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean, an operation that killed four people.

U.S. Southern Command, a division of the Department of Defense, announced the operation in a post on X and included a video of the strike. It comes at a time when the administration's strikes against alleged drug runners are facing increased scrutiny on Capitol Hill.

A top Virginia lawmaker uncorked an eyebrow-raising response after the conservative-leaning Supreme Court issued an unsigned order Thursday night allowing Texas to use a Trump-backed redrawn congressional map for the House aimed at flipping several Democratic districts.

A three-judge panel blocked the map in October, finding that challengers would likely prove it was unconstitutional due to racial discrimination. However, the majority on the high court criticized the panel for "fail[ing] to honor the presumption of legislative good faith by construing ambiguous direct and circumstantial evidence against the legislature." Furthermore, the Supreme Court also found that the lower court "improperly inserted itself into an active primary campaign, causing much confusion and upsetting the delicate federal-state balance in elections."

Following the Supreme Court's decision to allow Texas Republicans to use their heavily gerrymandered new congressional map that attempts to delete five Democratic seats, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig and CNN anchor Jake Tapper agreed that the ruling could have significant implications beyond the specific map at hand.

"Jake, this is going to have major consequences for the 2026 midterms, as the justices appear to acknowledge. This means Texas will get to use its revised map, the new map that would give Republicans up to five more majority-Republican districts," said Honig.